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laceblade ([personal profile] laceblade) wrote2008-04-18 05:37 pm

Battlestar Galactica: "Six of One"

For those not keeping track of episode titles, this is the episode that aired last Friday.



"I wanna hate you so much. So much."

"A lot of people died. I trusted you on a vision." I like Kara's call-backs to earlier seasons, and calling Roslin out on perceived inconsistencies in her beliefs.

I really liked her offering the gun to Roslin, and I think that Roslin was surprised by the offer. I'm surprised Roslin didn't shoot her (Oh wait.....she did!).

Watching Starbuck freak the fuck out is unsettling.

Wow, they make Tory go after Baltar? I like her "Oh, gee, thanks" when Tigh says, "You don't have to lie on your back for him." Isn't Tory pretty high-profile in the fleet? I feel like her hanging around Baltar, and not being at Roslin's heel, would be really noticeable. Of course, she ends up liking having sex with Baltar, because he's such a nice guy, so dreamy! (Gag me. I love watching Baltar but I can't imagine sleeping with him....ever.)

I liked Starbuck's confrontation with Adama. I liked her accusation that it's him who doesn't have the guts - it's true. Her screaming and crying isn't really helping her case, though. It's so unlike Kara Thrace that I'm not sure I would believe her, either.

In watching the Lee scene with the pilots and the liquor, I still don't understand why the show stopped addressing the fleet's lack of resources. It's an easy plot point to continuously return to, especially with all the sad attempts at meaningful self-contained episodes in seasons 2 and 3. Where does this liquor come from? How come Laura Roslin isn't just wearing the same 3 shirts any more?

Who the hell wrote this episode? This psycho-analytical scene between Roslin and Adama is amazing!

OH MY GOD, the Kara/Lee scene was all buddy and cute AND THEN THEY KISSED AND IT WAS EVEN BETTER! I really like that they took the time to have Lee say goodbye to the Galactica, too. So often in this show, people have been jumping from one job/ship to another without much time to reminisce, and it felt right. OMG the fleet was waiting for him! Lee tears! I love this show!

I still hate how they deal with the Lee/Dee relationship. It has never made sense to me, and even now, all she says is, "Goodbye, Lee." Watching these episodes is so weird, because they're so good, and remind me of the bits of the show that I did like a lot, but I still feel like there was just a big slump of suck in the middle. Maybe one day, I'll rewatch the entire series, and make a coherent thesis about why I feel this way.

I even like the Cylon interaction in this episode, and I usually hate that shit. New!Six is interesting, and I like how Boomer defied the other Eights.


In sum: All I ever seem to be able to do when watching TV is point out what I do/don't like. The analysis stuff doesn't kick in until later, when I listen to what people are saying about the episode, and why, and I think about it a lot.

Certainly, though, this episode had some nice writing that moved everyone forward emotionally, even though basically nothing happened with the plot this week, except for Kara getting set loose, and Lee leaving the Galactica. I hope this week's episode is equally well-written!
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[identity profile] ladyjax.livejournal.com 2008-04-18 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a way in which the Lee/Dee/Kara conundrum is unsettling to me if only because so much was probably left on the cutting room floor.

I can't deal with Lee's continued manpain. The less I see of it the better.

What sealed it for me was Lee having Dee go find Starbuck on the algae planet. I was more interested in Dee and Kara's interactions because there was so much there, so much you could tell Dee wanted to say and they didn't even go there after they got back to Galactica. Nope, we got Lee mooning over Kara, Dee getting the short end of the stick. What woman wants to see the man she's married eyeing the sort-of-ex? I hate that dynamic and was sad Galactica went that way.
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[identity profile] mystickeeper.livejournal.com 2008-04-20 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. The Dee/Lee stuff was just very poorly executed, and I think I could have cared a lot more than I did, had it been done better.

I think that what sucks the most is that I liked Dualla a lot when she was pragmatic and sassy, and then they took her and made her Lee's wife and jerked her around, and she lost a lot of what I liked about her. The character I saw in season 1 would never put up with Lee's loving-Kara-bullshit.